Apologies for the incoming back-in-my-day-speil, however youngsters as we speak won’t ever perceive the huge gulf that existed between online game cowl artwork and the precise recreation itself, notably when it got here to the Atari console.
Early Nintendo releases like Tremendous Mario Bros. and Excite Bike displayed the extremely pixelated 8-bit world of marvel you had been moving into on the packaging for a spell. Atari, nevertheless, was one thing utterly totally different, with paintings meant to seize a sense, with surreal, cartoonish, or photorealistic illustrations that might transport you to a different world. The sport containers and cartridge labels typically regarded extra like one thing you’d discover gracing pulpy sci-fi or fantasy novels. Certain, Missile Command appears to be like like one thing out of Star Wars; in actuality, you bought low-res beeps and boops flashing throughout the display screen.
